Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
Pinker, Steven
| Publication Date |
1999 |
| ISBN |
0297816470 |
| Publisher |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| SKU |
12335 |
| Notes |
Has possibly been a little wet at some point as a few pages are a little wrinkled to edges. Some rubbing and creasing to edge of dust wrapper. Clean and sound. |
Description
Hardback. xi, 348pp. In Words and Rules, Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language by picking a deceptively single phenomenon and examining it from every angle. The phenomenon - regular and irregular verbs - connects an astonishing array of topics in the sciences and humanities: the history of languages; the theories of Noam Chomsky and his critics; the attempts to simulate language using computer simulations of neural networks; the illuminating errors of children as they begin to speak; the nature of human concepts; the peculiarities of the English language; major ideas in the history of Western philosophy; the latest techniques in identifying genes and imaging the living brain.
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